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| Object ID | OB03046 |
| Title | Noccipotāna Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03066 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 35.56 |
| Height | 152.4 |
| Depth | 35.56 |
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| Details | A stone pillar, three of sides of which have been engraved with an inscription in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D. The inscribed sides of the pillar have been horizontally ruled for the purpose. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | in or before 1897 |
| Place | Noccipotāna |
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| Place | Noccipotāna |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 2. Noccipotāna Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 5-8. |
| Details | Found at Noccipotāna and examined there by the Archaeological Commissioner H. C. P. Bell on 24 September 1897. Noccipotāna or Nochchipotanais described as lying about one and a half miles from Galegama in Egoḍapattuva in the Tamankaḍuva district, some sixty miles south-east of Anurādhapura. It is the site of a large tank to the north of Manampitiya on the Polonnaruwa-Battcaloa road (possibly the tank marked at 7.929939, 81.134176 in Google Maps). |
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